The data layer

The Savings Lab.

Discover publishes the numbers behind smarter shopping. Every figure here is verified against a single source of record, carries its methodology, and is updated when the source updates. Nothing on this page is an estimate dressed up as a fact.

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Methodology

How these numbers are produced.

Every statistic on this site lives in one verified dataset, maintained by the ShopBack editorial team from company reporting. Pages read from that dataset; no number is typed by hand into a page. If a figure changes at the source, it changes everywhere at once. Two rules hold without exception: every per-merchant cashback rate we display carries a visible "rate checked" timestamp from an hourly check (the binding rate always lives on the store's page at shopback.com), and we never publish invented benchmarks, averages, or "best month to buy" claims.

The numbers

Verified network statistics.

20M
active annual members

Counted as unique members with at least one transaction in the trailing twelve months.

Source: ShopBack internal data, latest reporting period.

20K
brand partners

Merchants with a live integration on the ShopBack network.

Source: ShopBack internal data, latest reporting period.

500K
daily transactions

Average transactions started through ShopBack per day across the network.

Source: ShopBack internal data, latest reporting period.

US$900M
Cashback awarded

Cumulative cashback awarded to members across all markets since ShopBack launched in 2014.

Source: ShopBack internal data, latest reporting period.

Put the numbers to work.

For original per-merchant rate data, the US Cashback Rate Index publishes a dated snapshot of headline cashback rates across every merchant tracked on this site: average, spread, category breakdowns, and movers between editions.

The data pairs with the other two layers of this site: the How Cashback Works explainer for straight answers and the guides for the smart-shopper playbook. The editorial policy spells out the verification rules in full.

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